I posted this a while back.
Apparently Heath Ledger wanted to make a film about Nick Drake.
Heath was a little obsessed with Drake who died in similar circumstances.
swannsong wrote:Nick Drake
I remember stumbling across some second hand imports of Nick Drake's Pink Moon, Bryter Layter and Five Leaves Left in Andromeda Music somewhere down the end of Rundle Street.
I'd never heard of him before but some of the artwork and something about his name made me by the albums.
It was a Friday night and I'd just been paid for working at John Martins.
I still have those vinyl records some 30 odd years later.
I really think someone should make a movie of Nick Drakes short life. River Man Fly Time Has Told Me Day Is Done Way To Blue Northern Sky Thought Of Mary Jane
Eerie Ledger video may be released
Posted Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:05am AEDT
The fate of an eerie video of actor Heath Ledger "drowning" himself, set to a song by Nick Drake, is being mulled by the estate of the late singer-songwriter.
Drake committed suicide in 1974.
Yesterday Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment, with prescription pills nearby.
An autopsy conducted by New York's Medical examiner has proved inconclusive.
The black-and-white Drake clip, which Ledger shot and edited himself, was included in a multimedia installation, "A Place To Be" - devoted to Drake at Seattle's Bumbershoot festival in September 2007.
It was also on display during a Drake celebration of the same name in Los Angeles in October.
In it, Ledger turns the camera on himself while Drake's "Black Eyed Dog" plays.
At its conclusion, he drowns himself in a bathtub.
"Black Eyed Dog" is allegedly the last song Drake wrote before overdosing on the anti-depressant amitriptyline.
Sources have confirmed that the video is the property of the Drake estate.
They are now deciding whether to release it in any form.
Going back in time to the pioneers of sequencing and moogs and mellotrons - takes me back to their show at Festival Theatre in ......1975 Tangerine Dream - Ricochet live in a Church.
I've still got the vinyl.
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swannsong wrote:Going back in time to the pioneers of sequencing and moogs and mellotrons - takes me back to their show at Festival Theatre in ......1975
I've still got the vinyl.
I think I was the only kid in school that new about them back then !
The teachers at Craigmore thought I was on drugs, even back then I knew the drugs don't work!
swannsong wrote:Going back in time to the pioneers of sequencing and moogs and mellotrons - takes me back to their show at Festival Theatre in ......1975 Tangerine Dream - Ricochet live in a Church.
don't you listen to your thouhts?? sometimes they can tell you to do things you wouldn't normally do...like google adelaide united and join a football forum...
redmum wrote:don't you listen to your thouhts?? sometimes they can tell you to do things you wouldn't normally do...like google adelaide united and join a football forum...
Am sooooo glad someone did that........I guess I better start listening to myself more often. In fact there are voices now.....Bodo, need that medication again!
